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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTRIPLE CROWN SPORTS EXPANSION - MA220144 - CORRESPONDENCE - STAFF'S PROJECT COMMENTS Page 1 of 9 Community Development and Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue PO Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522 970.221.6689 970.224.6134 - fax fcgov.com/developmentreview April 11, 2023 Cathy Mathis TB Group 444 Mountain Avenue Berthoud, CO 80513 RE: Triple Crown Sports Expansion, MA220144, Round Number 3 Please see the following summary of comments from City staff and outside reviewing agencies for your submittal of Triple Crown Sports Expansion. If you have questions about any comments, you may contact the individual commenter or direct your questions through your Development Review Coordinator, Todd Sullivan via phone at 970-221-6695 or via email at tsullivan@fcgov.com. Comment Summary: Department: Development Review Coordinator Contact: Todd Sullivan, 970-221-6695, tsullivan@fcgov.com Topic: General Comment Number: 1 I will be your primary point of contact throughout the development review and permitting process. If you have any questions, need additional meetings with the project reviewers, or need assistance throughout the process, please let me know and I can assist you and your team. Please include me in all email correspondence with other reviewers and keep me informed of any phone conversations. Thank you! Comment Number: 2 RESUBMITTAL: As part of your resubmittal, you will respond to the comments provided in this letter. This letter is provided to you in Microsoft Word format. Please use this document to insert responses to each comment for your submittal, using a different font color. When replying to the comment letter please be detailed in your responses, as all comments should be thoroughly addressed. Comments requiring action should NOT have a response such as noted or acknowledged. You will need to provide references to specific project plans, pages, reports, or explanations of why comments have not been addressed [when applicable]. Page 2 of 9 Comment Number: 3 RESUBMITTAL: Please follow the Electronic Submittal Requirements and File Naming Standards found at https://www.fcgov.com/developmentreview/files/electronic submittal requirements and file naming standards_v1_8 1 19.pdf?1566857888. File names should begin with the file type, followed by the project information, and round number. Example: UTILITY PLANS_PROJECT NAME_PDP_Rd2.pdf File type acronyms maybe appropriate to avoid extremely long file names. Example: TIS for Traffic Impact Study, ECS for Ecological Characterization Study. Reach out to me if you would like a list of suggested names. *Please disregard any references to paper copies, flash drives, or CDs. Comment Number: 4 RESUBMITTAL: All plans should be saved as optimized/flattened PDFs to reduce file size and remove layers. Per the Electronic Submittal Requirements AutoCAD SHX attributes need to be removed from the PDF’s. AutoCAD turns drawing text into comments that appear in the PDF plan set, and these must be removed prior to submittal as they can cause issues with the PDF file. The default setting is "1" ("on") in AutoCAD. To change the setting and remove this feature, type "EPDFSHX" (version 2016.1) or “PDFSHX (version 2017 and newer) in the command line and enter "0". Read this article at Autodesk.com for more on this topic: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarti cles/sfdcarticles/Drawing-text-appears-as-Comments-in-a-PDF-created-by-Aut oCAD.html Comment Number: 5 RESUBMITTAL: Resubmittals are accepted any day of the week, with Wednesday at noon being the cut-off for routing the same week. When you are ready to resubmit your plans, please notify me with as much advanced notice as possible. Comment Number: 6 INFORMATION: Please resubmit within 180 days, approximately 6 months, to avoid the expiration of your project. Comment Number: 7 *RESUBMITTAL ROUND 4: ANY project that requires four or more rounds of review would be subject to an additional fee of $3,000.00. Comment Number: 8 *04/11/2023: RESUBMITTAL ROUND 4: Staff has requested an additional round of review based on outstanding comments. This will be a 3-week review period. Page 3 of 9 Department: Planning Services Contact: Jill Baty, jbaty@fcgov.com Topic: General Comment Number: 8 03/01/2023: FOR APPROVAL: There are no plans to widen Timberline Road prior to 2040. As such, the applicant is responsible for maintaining the strip of parkway along Timberline. This would require installing irrigation in this area. At a minimum, there must be 50% live plant ground coverage at the time of plant maturity and tree canopies do not count towards the calculation. Please include a landscaping and irrigation plan for this area. Update: this includes the strip interior to the sidewalk where current dead trees are. All of these areas must have 5-% live plant ground coverage. Please indicate the height and width at maturity of the proposed junipers and pines along timberline. Comment Number: 9 04/03/2023: FOR APPROVAL: Thank you for providing this information on your lighting plans. In order to review the plans, I will need to see some additional information on the plans. Please show the property lines on your lighting plan documents. It looks like some of your proposed lights might be in the public right-of-way along Timberline. Comment Number: 10 04/03/2023: FOR APPROVAL: Please include information about numbers and locations of existing exterior light fixtures on the entire site, including any that are mounted on the building. Applications that result in the replacement or upgrade of 50% or more of the existing outdoor lighting fixtures at one time or incrementally within a 10-year period shall submit a lighting plan for the entire site that meets the requirements of Section 3.2.4. Comment Number: 11 04/03/2023: FOR APPROVAL: Please show visuals of what your mounting poles and fixtures will look like, including height, orientation, materials and colors. Comment Number: 12 04/03/2023: FOR INFORMATION: Thank you for choosing color temperature of no greater than 5700 Kelvin for your ballpark lighting. Comment Number: 13 04/03/2023: FOR APPROVAL: Off-site impacts: 3.2.4(K)(2) Please show that this plan will limit off-site impacts to the maximum extent practical. Comment Number: 15 04/03/2023: FOR APPROVAL: Lighting controls: 3.2.4(K)(3) Please show that the lighting will be: - dimmable to 10% to adjust illuminance levels for relative activity (maintenance vs active play), - local or remote manual control with at least 2% preset illuminance levels, - lights shall be automatically extinguished by 1 hour after the end of play, and - field lighting aimed upward shall be controlled separately from downward-directed field lighting. Please clearly state how your plans comply with this section. Page 4 of 9 Comment Number: 16 04/03/2023: FOR APPROVAL: Thank you for indicating the location of the trash enclosure. Please include separate plans that show detailed elevations of the trash enclosure, calling out height and materials. Trash enclosures need to include a separate pedestrian entrance (at least 32 inches wide), bollards or other protective features, and service pad. Recycling capacity must be at least 50% of the proposed trash capacity. Plese refer to 3.2.5(C) for all trash enclosure standards. Comment Number: 14 04/06/2023: FOR APPROVAL: The intent of the exterior site lighting regulations in the Land Use Code includes protecting the local natural ecosystem from damaging effects of artificial lighting. The lighting proposed in this project spill over your property line quite a bit on the north boundary near Timberline into a wooded detention pond. Please reduce the damaging spillover of light into this natural feature. Comment Number: 17 04/11/2023: FOR APPROVAL: Newly installed trees along Timberline Rd. will need to be irrigated. Hand irrigation, similar to what is had been used for the dead trees in this area, will be insufficient. Comment Number: 18 04/11/2023: FOR INFORMATION: Thank you for your interest in native landscaping! Native plants can use less water and support native insects and vertebrates even in urban environments. Comment Number: 19 04/11/2023: FOR APPROVAL: Please indicate that landscaping and xeriscaping features will be installed such that no excess mulch, stone, etc. will spill onto the sidewalk or into the road. Comment Number: 20 04/11/2023: FOR APPROVAL: There must be 50% live plant ground coverage at plant maturity in all landscaped parkway/ROW areas. Tree canopies do not count toward the calculation. Please confirm this project will be meeting this requirement and make note of it on the plans. Comment Number: 21 04/11/2023: FOR APPROVAL: Please indicate that your rings of mulch around trees will be 4 inches deep. Plans currently indicate 2 inches, which is insufficient. Page 5 of 9 Department: Environmental Planning Contact: Scott Benton, (970)416-4290, sbenton@fcgov.com Topic: General Comment Number: 1 12/12/2022: No comments. Comment Number: 2 02/22/2023: FOR APPROVAL: Please note that the standard 'Song Bird Nesting' is present on page LS3 on the Landscape Plan. A songbird nesting survey will be required to be completed prior to tree removal if the trees are removed during the songbird nesting season (Feb 1 to July 31). The City of Fort Collins is designated as a bird sanctuary for the refuge of wild birds (Municipal Code Chapter 4, Division 8 - Wild Birds: https://library.municode.com/co/fort_collins/codes/municipal_code? nodeId=CH4ANIN_ARTIIAN_DIV8WIBI) and in order to satisfy the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act requirements, it is prohibited for any person at any time in the City to abuse or injure any wild bird or damage a nest with eggs or injure the young of any such bird. A professional ecologist or wildlife biologist is required to complete the nesting survey linked below 5-7 days before conducting tree removal or trimming. Comment Number: 3 04/11/2023: FOR APPROVAL: The Exterior Site Lighting code section LUC 3.2.4(K) provides some special allowances to athletic fields, however some notes on the site plan are needed to indicate how those requirements will be met and honored. For example, what is the lighting schedule and controls (i.e., timers) to ensure that excessive lighting is not used during ecologically sensitive times (dawn and dusk)? Department: Forestry Contact: Carrie Tomlinson, , ctomlinson@fcgov.com Topic: General Comment Number: 7 4/10/2023: UNRESOLVED Thank you for adding drip rings on your irrigation plan and adding the language in your detail to only use mulch around the trees, please show this on your plan drawings also. Also, please add the reference in detail #11 for contacting forestry staff onto your plan drawings also especially in reference to the new water line and use of a hydro-excavator and root pruning in this area. See the following language as a possible example for this plan: At the edge of disturbance, a 2 foot deep and 6 inch wide trench will be made to expose any existing roots using a pressure setting of less than 1800 psi. All roots over 3 inches in diameter will be inspected by the Forestry Division prior to cutting or disturbing. Any root under this diameter will be cut cleanly at the furthest possible point away from the tree with a sharp hand saw (no rotary blade or chainsaw). Trench for water line shall not exceed 2 feet in width. Page 6 of 9 02/27/2023: FOR APPROVAL: Please move all irrigation laterals out of the critical root zones of exiting trees and indicate which lines will be surfaced as drip lines versus lateral lines. Place all laterals against curb lines or as far outside of critical root zones as possible and indicate that all lines inside of critical root zones will be hand dug. Please include this language on the irrigation plan and also indicate appropriate critical root zone sizes on irrigation plan as per the diameter of the trees. Lastly, please indicate that during excavation of lateral lines if any roots greater than 2 inches in diameter will be left in place and irrigation line routed around them and also indicate that the roots should be exposed using an air spade or hydro-excavator if there are significant (greater than 3 inches in diameter) roots in this area. Also please move all valve boxes out of critical root zones of trees or to areas determined through air space or excavator to be void of roots positioned next to curb line. Please include this language on plan set as detail. Comment Number: 8 02/27/2023: FOR APPROVAL: During researching the history and MA approvals for the ROW area along Timberline, an onsite inspection was done for the trees along this stretch. Unfortunately, most the trees here are dead or dying. All of the trees in this area in this condition will need to be replaced as part of this plan set for approval . Comment Number: 9 04/10/2023: FOR APPROVAL Please space your trees along Timberline at 30 feet and add another tree on the south end, this could also be another mitigation tree if needed for your plan. Comment Number: 10 04/10/2023: FOR APPROVAL: please add different species into your tree selections along this frontage so they are not all the same trees. No one species should make up more than 50% of the species by landscape code standards. Comment Number: 11 04/10/2023: FOR APPROVAL: All new trees along timberline will need to be put on drip irrigation. Hand watering is not sufficient for tree watering in Fort Collins. Page 7 of 9 Department: Technical Services Contact: Jeff County, 970-221-6588, jcounty@fcgov.com Topic: Plat Comment Number: 1 04/06/2023: Please make changes as marked. If changes are not made or you disagree with comments, please provide written response of why corrections were not made. Please provide any responses on redlined sheets and/or in response letter. If you have any specific questions about the redlines, please contact John Von Nieda at 970-221-6565 or jvonnieda@fcgov.com 02/27/2023: Please make changes as marked. If changes are not made or you disagree with comments, please provide written response of why corrections were not made. Please provide any responses on redlined sheets and/or in response letter. If you have any specific questions about the redlines, please contact John Von Nieda at 970-221-6565 or jvonnieda@fcgov.com 12/29/2022: Please make changes as marked. If changes are not made or you disagree with comments, please provide written response of why corrections were not made. Please provide any responses on redlined sheets and/or in response letter. If you have any specific questions about the redlines, please contact John Von Nieda at 970-221-6565 or jvonnieda@fcgov.com Department: Erosion Control Contact: Andrew Crecca, , acrecca@fcgov.com Topic: Erosion Control Comment Number: 6 02/17/2023: For Approval or Final Plan: Please see the returned redlines and update erosion control plan. Based upon the supplied materials, an Erosion Control Escrow Calculation will need to be provided. Please submit an Erosion Control Escrow / Security Calculation based upon the accepted Erosion Control Plans to meet City Criteria (FCDCM Ch 2 Section 6.1.5) at time of Final Plan or Approval Submittal. Comment Number: 9 04/04/2023: Acceptance: Thank you for correcting erosion control plan redlines from round two as well as providing an Erosion Control Escrow Calculation. All submitted erosion materials are accepted. Please look for a Project Acceptance email from DRCoord@fcgov.com and or erosion@fcgov.com with instructions to submit fees and escrow as well as requesting initial erosion control inspection once construction begins. Page 8 of 9 Department: Stormwater Engineering Contact: Stephen Agenbroad, , sagenbroad@fcgov.com Topic: General Comment Number: 10 04/06/2023: INFORMATION ONLY All Stormwater Engineering comments have been satisfied and there are no further Stormwater requirements. Department: Water-Wastewater Engineering Contact: Stephen Agenbroad, , sagenbroad@fcgov.com Topic: General Comment Number: 1 02/23/2023: INFORMATION ONLY: The irrigation plan proved that less than 30,000 gal/year will be used by this lot; therefore, no separate irrigation tap for this property will be necessary. As a reminder, due to the upsizing of the water service the water supply requirements will be reevaluated for the site and fees will be due before a building permit will be issued. Please contact Utility Fees at UtilityFees@fcgov.com for further clarification. 01/03/2023: FOR APPROVAL: The water service is proposed to be upsized, therefore under City Municipal Code Chapter 26, Article III, Division 5 the water supply fees may need to be recalculated. Please contact Utility Fees at UtilityFees@fcgov.com for further clarification. According to City Ordinance 119 2021, upsizing your water service would require a separate irrigation tap to be added to the property. Comment Number: 6 04/06/2023: FOR INFORMATION ONLY: Thank you for your cooperation in satisfying all the water/wastewater comments for this project. There are no further requirements for water wastewater. Department: Light And Power Contact: Tyler Siegmund, 970-416-2772, tsiegmund@fcgov.com Topic: General Comment Number: 2 03/01/2023: INFORMATION: Light and Power currently serves this property out of a 50kva single phase transformer. It is understood that an increase in electric capacity is needed with this project. It is anticipated that an upgraded transformer will be needed due to the increase in capacity. Page 9 of 9 Comment Number: 3 03/01/2023: INFORMATION: Light and Power is experiencing material shortages and long lead times on certain materials and unfortunately this is an industry wide issue. Light and Power typically has stock of transformers, and we work on a first come, first service basis with our inventory stock. We will assess what is available once the project gains City approval and progresses to construction. Light and Power is working hard to secure materials, including transformers, and orders have been placed with our manufactures to replenish inventory. Comment Number: 4 03/01/2023: INFORMATION: Electric capacity fees, development fees, building site charges and any system modification charges necessary to feed the site will apply to this development. Please contact me to discuss development fees or visit the following website for an estimate of charges and fees related to this project: http://www.fcgov.com/utilities/business/builders-and-developers/plant-investment-development-fees Comment Number: 5 03/01/2023: INFORMATION: Any existing electric infrastructure that needs to be upgraded and/or relocated as part of this project will be at the expense of the developer. Comment Number: 6 03/01/2023: INFORMATION: Please contact Tyler Siegmund with electric project engineering if you have any questions at (970) 416-2772. You may reference Light & Power’s Electric Service Standards at: https://www.fcgov.com/utilities/img/site_specific/uploads/electricservicestandards.pdf?1645038437 Reference our policies, development charge processes, and use our fee estimator at: http://www.fcgov.com/utilities/business/builders-and-developers. Department: Park Planning Contact: Missy Nelson, , mnelson@fcgov.com Topic: General Comment Number: 1 02/28/2023: FOR APPROVAL - UNRESOLVED: Please locate pipe with Parks department and add to utility plan set. 01/03/2023: The irrigation pipeline will need to be located in order to determine whether the trees will be able to be planted. In addition, the material of the pipe may affect how close the trees can be located.